Category: Drama
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Follow that car! How drama reveals the inner story
One Saturday, we drove south on 17th Street, made a left on to Ontario, and started east towards Broad Street, when a large man ran out between two cars and flagged down the car. He knocked on the window, yelling at us to open up, gesturing down the street towards some unseen quarry. It was…
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Relive your memoir by acting: Pursuit of Happyness
by Jerry Waxler I found insight into the power of memoirs from a surprising source, the movie Pursuit of Happyness. The movie is based on a true story about Chris Gardner, down on his luck in San Francisco in 1981. Gardner, played by superstar Will Smith, is working at a dead end sales job that…
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Blubbering while performing his memoir
At the dramatic reading of Jerry Perna’s semi-autobiographical “Seven Men from Now” in West Philadelphia’s Rotunda the other night, Jerry Perna started blubbering as he was telling a story about his father’s last night on earth. The reading was filled with emotion about the author’s frustration with his father, and the pathos of losing him.…
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Memoirs Start Last Night
by Jerry Waxler You start making memories every day. Last night for example, I went to a dramatic reading in Philadelphia. Jerry Perna’s play was dramatically read by himself and several actors, as part of a joint effort to provide actors with opportunities to express their craft. The reading was being produced for a live…
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